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For many of us, a trip to our family physician often starts with a blood pressure reading. When the nurse tells me my blood pressure score, she’ll explain that my numbers are in the normal range, but I’ve never really understood what the numbers mean.

The Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, one of Via Christi’s founding congregations, assembled Wednesday to begin a three-day celebration of their 125 years providing health care in Wichita.

Fittingly, the 13 SSMs from Rome, the Caribbean, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin started their events by sharing a dinner with the Congregation of St. Joseph. The two groups of Sisters combined their ministries in 1995 to form Via Christi.

The arrival of colder weather means it’s time to begin using fuel-burning appliances. These appliances include furnaces, ovens, space heaters, generators, indoor grills and fireplaces, and they can unknowingly cause dangerous levels of carbon monoxide (CO) to build up in the home.